Meet Deepti Chatti

Deepti Chatti joined HSU in Fall 2019 and she is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and Faculty Research Associate at the Schatz Energy Research Center. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of the environment and her research centers the social equity challenges that undergird sustainable development efforts to improve energy access in the global South. Her current research ethnographically analyzes clean cooking technologies and programs in India, and studies the politics of trans-national field experiments on sustainable development, energy access, air pollution, and climate change. Deepti came to HSU from Yale University where she was completing a doctorate. Deepti has an interdisciplinary educational background with graduate degrees in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and engineering, and several years of work experience outside academia. Since joining HSU, she has taught Power, Privilege, and the Environment, and Environmental Studies Research and Analysis in Fall 2019. In Spring Deepti is teaching Energy Justice to a diverse set of advanced undergraduate and graduate students at HSU, which is a class that analyzes how energy systems are integral to understanding the social inequalities of our times.

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